Improved bed-bottom



PATENT OFFICE.

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IMPROVED BED-BOTTOM.'

Specification forming part of liet-ters Patent No. 117,789, dated May 23,1865. v'

To all whom'tt may concern :v

I Be it known that I, CHARLES D.'BL1NN, of

Port Huron, in the county of St. Clairand State ot" Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in BedBottoms; and I .do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled inf-the art to make and use the same, reference being had'tothe Vaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in Which s y `Figure`l is a plan view of a bed-bottom made accordingto my invention. `liig. 2 is a 4longitudinal vertieat sect'rou'taken on the' line :n of Fig. l. f

Siinilarletters of reference lindicate corre# spondingiparts.

. This invention consists in a novel construc-V tion of spring bedbottom the elasticity4 of whichisproduced altogether by-Wooden slats connected toeach'other and to theV bedstead in a peculiar Way, so that the frame of the bed'bottoin is aiiected by` pressure. on any part of it, and its different parts are made to bear a share of thelo'ad. l.

F F F F represent theside and a bedstead;

A A are slats which are connected near the center of .their length aud edgewise to the end rails of -side rails, the connectionfbeing so made that vthe middle parts of said slats'A A are fixed,

while theirends are free to vibrate in vertical fdirec'tions, The fastenings which connect the' slats to the rails are designated by the letterb.

B B are slats, .which are connected'to the" end rails 'F by'meaus of hooks `d,`upon.or in which the ends of saidslats rest, their middle parts being free to yield to pressure from above. I v o D is a-central slat,.whicl1 extends from the middle part ot" one slat, B, to the middle part of the other, its ends bein g' carried. beneath said slats Band being 'suspended from them by means of, loops a or their equivalents.

The letters E designate slats, which lextend across the centralslfat, D, ltheir ends coming beneath the sid'e-rail'slats A. These slats-E may be more or less numerous, according to the size` of the bedstead or thethickness ot' the stuft'out of'which the slats are made.

The outermost slats, E, at eitherend of the -A frame, are connected atl their eudsto the ends ofthe side-rail slats A by means of loops or other fastenings, by which theslats E may be suspended from the ends of said slats A. Those 'slats E'which are intermediate to the l end slats E are, connectedto each other and lto the latterby ropes or cords,"whicl1 are so.A

applied that each slat is kept at a tance from those adjacent to it.l

`C C are other slats, placed parallel with the central s lat, D., and beneath fthe cross-slats Ev near to their ends, but within the line of the side rails A'. A'lhe ends of said slats- VC reach beneaththe ends of the end-rail slats B, and they are suspended from the^ same slats E,- Which are fastened to the side-rail slats A. y

L The slats A, B,'G, and D are made strongcr than the cross-slats E, thelatter beingmade` as thin and narrow as will be `consistent with proper disvthe duty they'have toperform. l It will be observed that pressure upon the slats Eis communicated throughthe central I slat, D, to the endrail slats B, and also through the slats C to the side-rail slats A, which slats A and B therefore sustain ultimately put upon the bed-bottom. i

It will be observed also that the resistance of said slats A and B isofan elastic and yielding character and not rigid. I claim as new and desire tose'cure yters Pateut .t

The bed-bottom above set forth, construct ed substantially as herein described. CHARLES D. BLINN.

uy Let Witnesses:

N. T. FARE, 1t. M. FRENCH.

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